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While both gunmakers built rifles using Mauser actions, Schuler’s design incorporated a straight stack magazine to accommodate their cartridge while Jeffery stayed with the Mauser double stack design. Also, the German bullets of the time came apart and failed to penetrate deeply on thick skinned game. W. J. Jeffery used a longer shoulder angle for feeding, a thicker jacketed bullet for better penetration, and cordite powder to create the .500 Jeffery. Jeffery was not an ammunition manufacturer and probably had Kynoch do all or most of this on his behalf. It is likely they got Schuler “basic brass” cases from the German manufacturer and then formed and loaded it to Jeffery’s specifications. It seems obvious that Schuler came up with his cartridge first. It is equally obvious that Jeffery did not “steal” Schuler’s cartridge and put his name on it, as some have said.

The .500 Jeffery is an excellent cartridge for dangerous game. It is not a 12.7x70 mm (.500 Schuler). Treating them as the same can be dangerous to humans and fine rifles.